We're back again this month with Heli (theatre and performance costume designer, most recently a costume and character designer for Remedy’s Control and the upcoming Crossfire 2. Also worked on Mirages for Kroma Productions, and EGO CURE for Aalto University)and Claire (currently an art director at Valve, previously an artist and associate production designer for Microsoft Studios on a ton of Kinect games, Fable Legends, Sunset Overdrive, Powerstar Golf, and more. Also the production designer for Westworld VR) to talk about why costume design as a specialized role isn’t more common in games, the narrative features of costume design, differences with fashion design, research, building costumes for worlds less-based in reality, the problem of flowing clothes, working with the non-monetary budgets of video games (memory, processing power, etc), not holding back on your first draft, their most important collaborators, iteration, pitching ideas that may be too “out there,” the hardest costume they’ve designed (that they can talk about), knowing when something’s done, how non-costume designers can learn more about costume design, mundane costume design, work/life balance, and how can writers make costume designers’ lives easier.
Our guests on the Internet
Claire’s Twitter and Website.
Heli’s Website and Artstation.
Stuff We Talked About
Marvelous Designer
LA Noire
The Art of Manipulating Fabric by Colette Wolff
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Bayonetta
Marc Laidlaw & Chris Gardiner
Mitch Dyer & Demian Linn
Charlene Putney & Jana Sloan van Geest
Janina Gavankar & Sarah Elmaleh
Alex Neonakis & Olly Moss
Halley Gross & Graham Reznick
Samantha Wallschlaeger & Brooke Maggs
Michael Choung & Laura Jacqmin
Ashly Burch & Kate Dollarhyde
Kim Belair & Harrison G. Pink
Josh Mosqueira & Darby McDevitt
Sean Vanaman & Jesse Stern
Aleissia Laidacker & Rob Morgan
Émilie Poissenot & Brie Code
Emily Grace Buck & Julie Marchiori
Tim Schafer, Jake Elliott, and Cara Ellison
Mel MacCoubrey & Ann Lemay
Thomas Grip & JT Petty
Josh Scherr & Sarah Elmaleh
Laura E. Hall & Ian Thomas
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